Nederlandse Vereniging voor Radiotherapie en Oncologie

Vergadering gehouden op 15 maart 2002 te Utrecht

E.A.Gerber (Wenen), Adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemo/radiotherapy of gastric cancer

Despite its continuously decreasing incidence over the last century, gastric cancer remains one of the common lethal malignancies in industrialised countries: annually, more than 50.000 patients die of this cancer in the EU-15 region. Complete surgical resection is the only therapeutic modality capable of cure. The extent of disease and adequacy of surgery are the most important prognostic factors that affect survival. As the disease of most patients in Europe has been diagnosed in advanced stages, relapses even after complete resection occur very…